Xenophagocytosis blockade enhances interspecies chimerism
Sicong Wang, Kouta Niizuma, Daniel Dan Liu, Fabian Patrik Suchy, Alyssa H. Chang, Saman Tabatabaee, Hideyuki Sato, Ayaka Yanagida, Hideki Masaki, Nathan Hidajat, Shota Homma, Masashi Miyauchi, Joydeep Bhadury, Carsten T. Charlesworth, Jinyu Zhang, , Hiromitsu Nakauchi
This study identifies xenophagocytosis as an innate immune barrier that limits interspecies chimerism and shows that blocking it enhances donor cell engraftment in mouse embryos.
Cell · Jun 5, 2026Peer-reviewedImmunology